A/HRC/40/38/Add.1 Mandate Description of events organized by mandate holders with the support of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Throughout the year, the Independent Expert engaged with scores of media, researchers and conferences, notably the 4th European Days of Albinism, held from 7 to 11 March 2018, and the first international albinism conference in Asia, held on 9 November 2018 in Tokyo. She also collaborated with the Salif Keita Global Foundation on a national symposium on the rights of persons with albinism, held in Mali on 15 November 2018. Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises On 20 and 21 February, the Working Group convened an Asia regional consultation on the gender dimensions of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), which was hosted by Ashoka University’s Genpact Centre for Women’s Leadership (GCWL) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Asia-Pacific and UN Women, at Ashoka University’s campus in Sonipat (near New Delhi) in India. The consultation brought together about 150 participants from more than 30 countries. On 30 April, the Working Group convened a consultation on the gender dimensions of the UNGPs organized in collaboration with the OHCHR Regional Office for the Pacific in Suva, Fiji. Apart from UN agencies, civil society organizations (CSOs) and businesses, the Honourable Mereseini Vuniwaqa, who is the Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation of Fiji, also participated in this consultation. On 17 May, the Working Group convened an open multi-stakeholder consultation on corporate human rights due diligence as part of the consultations for its 2018 report that it presented to the UN General Assembly in September 2018 (A/73/163). On 12 October, the Working Group convened an African regional consultation in Nairobi on the gender dimensions of the UNGPs. It was co-hosted by the Centre for Applied Legal Studies of the University of the Witwatersrand (CALS), Hivos Foundation, the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), the African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA) and the OHCHR. On 14 and 15 November, the Working Group convened another consultation on the gender dimensions of the UNGPs in Sydney, Australia. The event was co-hosted by the Australian Human Rights Commission, the Australian Human Rights Institute and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University’s Centre for People, Organisation and Work (CPOW). From 26 to 28 November, the Working Group chaired the 7th annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights held in Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The Forum brought together more than 2,700 registered participants from more than 130 countries, including a record high participation of the private sector (29% of the total registered participants). Under the theme “Business respect for human rights – building on what works”, the Forum programme included more than 70 thematic sessions that focused on emerging practices in different sectors and across value chains, what human rights due diligence implies in relation to specific human rights risks and impacts, including groups at particular risk, and on other “hot” topics, such as the connection between human rights due diligence and artificial intelligence, automation, block chain technology, the role of tech companies in society, civic freedoms and human rights defenders, climate justice and the transition to a green economy, responsible tax conduct, corporate engagement on the SDGs and business in conflict areas, amongst others. Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights 66 On 28 February and 1 March, the Special Rapporteur convened an expert consultation on “Strengthening the Cultural Rights Approach to the Universality of Human Rights: Challenges, Opportunities and Strategies” in Geneva. The aim of the meeting was to identify the ways in which cultural rights can strengthen universality and its